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Show 00 WTEi LABOR Wealthy Persons Should Reduce Re-duce Corps of Servants and Valets and Flunkies. EIGHT-HOUR DAY WISE Should Be Established and Continued Wherever It Does Not Nov Prevail. WASHINGTON, May 26. Waste of labor through irregular employment and maintenance of large numbers of valets and flunkies are responsible for the present apparent labor shortage, Samuel Gompers, president of the American Am-erican Federation of Labor, declared today. He recommended that Instead of lengthening working hours to meet government war demands, employers take greater care to provide steady employment and wealthy persons reduce re-duce their corps of servants. "Tho experience of Great Britain under war conditions," he declared, "proves conclusively that tho wisest plan, not only from the standpoint of production but from that of maintaining maintain-ing tho virility of our nation, is to continue tho eight-hour day .wherever it has been established and to establish estab-lish it whero It does not already prevail." pre-vail." nn |